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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he'd always known--a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Boston Globe "Love Letters" columnist and author of Chemistry Lessons follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother's ashes in favorite gardens.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trying to keep the death of their parents a secret, Marnie and her little sister Nelly are on their own until several residents in Glasgow's Hazelhurst housing estate suspect that something is not right.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.
Publisher
Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party!"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
10) The dream weaver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Latinx Zoey navigates the tricky waters of friendship and family while searching for a way to save her grandfather's bowling alley from closing"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a microaggression at her wealthy Manhattan high school thrusts her into the spotlight, half-Latina/half-Korean Alejandra Kim, who feels like an outcast, must carve out a place for herself while dealing with the loss of her father.
12) Twisted
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
16) Someone
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the ordinary life of a woman named Marie, from her childhood to old age, as she experiences the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn, in this novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1808 Ghent, eighteen-year-old Constance runs away from an arranged marriage to a much older man by stealing his clothes, sneaking out of the house disguised as a man, and joining Napoleon's army.
19) Lessons
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines, haunted by lost opportunities, searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that have shaped his existence and memories.
20) The ebb tide
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a well-to-do family asks Sallie Riehl to be their daughter's nanny for the summer at their Cape May, New Jersey, vacation home, she jumps at the chance to broaden her horizons beyond the Lancaster County Amish community where she grew up. Curious by nature, Sallie loves reading and learning, and she fears that her chances of making a good match with an Amish farmer will be hampered because of it. Though she loves taking care of nine-year-old...